Plaque is on lamppost at the northwest corner of Burrard St. and Cornwall Ave.

Photo credit: Roy Miki

Location: Plaque is on lamppost at the northwest corner of Burrard St. and Cornwall Ave.

Daphne Marlatt was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2006 and became the 19th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Born in Australia, she immigrated to Vancouver in 1951.

The first Canadian woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the world’s most insightful and skilled short story writers, Alice Munro worked at the Vancouver Public Library prior to her worldwide literary acclaim.

Plaque is on lamppost on south side of 4000 block of W. 8th Ave., near east end of the block.

Photo credit: Barry Peterson and Blaise Enright

Location: Plaque is on lamppost on south side of 4000 block of W. 8th Ave., near east end of the block.

Jane Rule wrote her first, best-known novel, Desert of the Heart (1964), while living here with her long-time partner Helen Sonthoff. Rule’s compassionate and unsentimental account of two women who meet and fall in love in Reno, Nevada, made her an international figure.

Plaque is on lamppost on south side of 900 block of W. 7th Ave., slightly west of mid-block.

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Location: Plaque is on lamppost on south side of 900 block of W. 7th Ave., slightly west of mid-block.

Long before Andreas Schroeder led Canada to adopt Public Lending Right and helped found both the League of Canadian Poets and the Writers Union of Canada, the prolific UBC Creative Writing professor was an avant-garde, ex-Mennonite motorcyclist and surrealist who lived in a four-storey, ramshackle, communal house, just east of Oak St.